ENGAGE-TB: Operational Guidance - World Health Organization

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Engage-TB: integrating community-based tuberculosis activities into the work of nongovernmental and other civil
society organizations: operational guidance / by Haileyesus Getahun …[et al].
1.Tuberculosis – prevention and control. 2.Tuberculosis – diagnosis. 3.Tuberculosis – therapy. 4.Community health services.
5.Community medicine. 6.Organizations. I.Getahun, Haileyesus II.Joseph, Thomas. III.Tomaskovic, Lana. IV. Raviglione, Mario C.
V.World Health Organization.
ISBN 978 92 4 150450 8 (NLM classification: WF 200)
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